fahrenheit 9/11.
On Saturday night Bradee and I saw The New Michael Moore Blockbuster That's Sweeping The Nation!
Well -- first we saw ten minutes of commercials. Then we saw ten minutes of trailers. Then we saw Fahrenheit 9/11.
Four showings that night were sold out, and there were people sitting on the floor of the theater behind us. The DNC were out front, signing people up to contribute. Pretty amazing.
We left the movie depressed and fired up and ready to send $2000 to the John "honky" Kerry campaign. But upon thinking about the film afterwards, I couldn't figure out its point. It haphazardly flailed around with facts but didn't draw any real conclusions. It described situations in ways that felt... incomplete? one-sided?... and implied conspiracies with "now isn't that a little suspect? hmm?". On its face it wasn't as snarky as I expected, but in hindsight, it was pretty snarky.
Some quick googling brought me to fahrenheit fact. I'm not sure what FF's agenda is (though it feels conservative) but if some of what they're saying is true -- and a lot of it doesn't feel like a stretch -- then, well, what the fuck.
The thing I like to believe about liberals is that they want logic and fairness, that going on gut or tradition isn't enough, that they want issues to be clearly understood from all sides and acted on accordingly. So if someone starts acting like an idiot zealot, twisting facts and citing half-quotes to "win", then I don't care if I agree with their point because they're just as embarrassing, and harmful, as fuckwit Sean Hannity.
That's why I don't care about Air America. I don't want to be preached to. I don't want to hear Al Franken make fun of John Ashcroft. I want real facts about issues so I can make an actual decision instead of siding with a team.
All that said, I guess most of the US likes being preached to and likes having a side to root against, and if takes ridiculous showboating to oust the current administration, I'll take it. But I won't feel good about it, and I hate knowing that it will only make things worse for the next four years. We all live here together, fercrissakes.
I don't know what the absolute truth is about Iraq or 9/11, but I know that sitting next to my 7-months-pregnant wife and seeing footage of a man carrying his dead child away from a bomb site was horrible. I couldn't watch. All I could think was, that could be us. that could be my son. just for living somewhere. And our president has the gall to make "I know those weapons of mass destruction are around here somewhere" jokes? Fuck you, you rich, stupid fuck.